Common name: Snapdragon Vine
Family: Scrophulariaceae- Figwort family
Size: 1 m
Description: Climbing, trailing, smooth, delicate vine
Habitat: Various soils
Flower:
- 1.6-2.5 cm long
- 5 petals
- Violet to purple or white
- united, shortly tubular
- Upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed
- Flowers solitary from leaf axil
Stem and Leaves:
- Leaves 1.3-2.5 cm long
- Alternative, long-stalked, blade triangular shaped
- Stems one to few, slender, much-branched
Common name: Green Milkweed Vine, Net-vein Milkweed, Pearl Milkvine
Family: Asclepiadaceae
Size: 4.5 m long
Description: Twining, climbing, soft-hairy vine
Habitat: Various soils, partly shaded areas, oak mottes
Flower:
- 2 cm across
- 5 petals,
- Pale green with netlike venation
- United in basal portion
- 5 stamens united, topped with small silver-colored pearlike structure
- Flowers few to several, stalked, in cluster
- Long stalked in cluster from leaf axils
Stem and leaves:
- Leaves 12 cm long
- Opposite, long stalked
- Heart shaped
- Margins entire
- Stem solitary, branched, wiry
Common name: Silver-leaf nightshade
Family: Solanaceae
Size: 1 m tall
Description: Upright, sparsely prickly, covered with star-shaped hairs and silvery
Habitat: Various soils
Flower:
- 2-2.5 cm across
- 5 petals, violet to lavender or white
- United at base, 5 lobed, star-shaped
- Anthers large, yellow, upright
Stem and leaves:
- 15 cm long
- Alternate, long stalked
- Margins wavy
- Stem one to few from base
Common name: Tocalote, Malta Star Thistle, Maltase Star Thistle, Tocolote
Family: Asteraceae
Size: Up to 75 cm tall
Description: Upright, smooth, spiny
Habitat: Various dry soils
Flower:
- 1 cm across
- Ray flowers absent
- Disk flowers numerous, yellow, suspended by 4 or 5 rows of spine-tipped bracts.
- Heads one to few at tips of branches.
Stem and leaves:
- Leaves 5-10 cm long
- Alternate
- Lower leaves rounded, lobed, without spines
- Upper leaves narrow, unlobed
- Stems several, widely branching with branches upright
Common name: Texas thistle
Family: Asteraceae
Size: Up to 1.5 m tall
Description: Upright, spiny, woolly
Habitat: Several soils
Flower:
- 3.8 across
- Ray flowers absent, disk flowers numerous,
- Color purple-rose to pink held in cup of prickly-tipped bracts.
- Heads solitary at tips of long, woolly, almost leafless stalks
Stem and leaves:
- Leaves 10-30 cm long
- Alternate, numerous, clasping stem at base, lower surface with whitish hairs
- Blade with triangular or rounded lobes on each side, each lobed irregularly spiny-toothed
- Basal leaves larger, upper leaves smaller
- Stem solitary, much-branched in upper portion
